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Russian terms
Russian people
Russian leaders
Russian Geography
Russian economy
100
They come between the rich class and the poor class.
What is the Middle class?
100
He works as a hamburger flipper and can wire your house!
What is underemployed?
100
He is the current President of Russia.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
100
The taiga.
What is the world's largest coniferous forest?
100
It means "restructured."
What is perestroika?
200
A military overthrow of the government.
What is a coup?
200
They herded reindeer.
Who are the Nenet people?
200
He was President of the Soviet Union and met several times with President Reagan of the United States. He signed arms reduction treaties.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
200
This small strait separtes eastern Russia from the United States.
What is the Bering Strait?
200
An economy where the government makes all the decisions.
What is command economy?
300
Two nations build up arms and have a race to space, but do not launch weapons at each other.
What is the Cold War?
300
He was booted out by Stalin.
Who is Trotsky?
300
He had a five year plan that was successful in the 1920s.
Who is Josef Stalin?
300
This city has a great port and it was at one time the capital of Russia.
What is St. Petersburg?
300
She followed Peter the Great as emperess of Russia and also saw great economic growth.
Who is Catherine the Great?
400
It means openness.
What is glasnost?
400
He can't find a job that are worthy of his skills.
Who is the underemployed?
400
Boris Yeltsin
Who is the first elected President of Russia?
400
This city was built on a swamp, but it is now a great economic hub and the capital of Russia.
What is Moscow?
400
This is a growing class in Russia's economy.
What is the Middle Class?
500
It was a war without weapons between Russia and the United States.
What is the Cold War?
500
He was a great composer of music and wrote "The Nutcracker Suite."
Who is Tchiakovsky?
500
He was the last czar.
Who is Nicholas II?
500
This great plain is a farmer's paradise in the western part of Russia.
What is the Northern Plain?
500
There is great wealth of minerals in these Russian mountains.
What are the Ural Mountains?